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Conferences

Ontology Development For Low-Energy Building Embedded Commissioning

November 17, 2009

Author(s)

Kwang Jun Lee, Omer Akin, Burcu Akinci, James Garrett, Steven T. Bushby

This paper presents the results of initial work in developing an ontology for improving information exchange and automation in building system commissioning...

Novel, All-Digital Phase Measurement System for Time Scales

November 16, 2009

Author(s)

Stefania Romisch, Thomas E. Parker, Steven R. Jefferts

A novel, all-digital phase measurement system, to be utilized as part of the NIST Time Scale at NIST in Boulder, CO is presented. The system is used to compare...

Two-Way Satellite Time and Frequency Transfer Using 1 MChip/S codes

November 16, 2009

Author(s)

Victor S. Zhang, Thomas E. Parker, Demetrios Matsakis, Joseph Achkar, Daniele Rovera, Dirk Piester, Andreas Bauch, Luca Lorini

The Ku-band transatlantic and Europe to Europe two-way satellite time and frequency transfer (TWSTFT) operations used the 2.5 MChip/s pseudo-random codes with 3...

Phase-lock Loops in Vibration Environments

November 16, 2009

Author(s)

Archita Hati, Craig W. Nelson, David A. Howe

A popular scheme for achieving low phase noise across a large range of offset frequencies is to employ an oscillator at an output frequency with low far-from...

Progress on a Portable Rubidium Fountain Frequency Standard

November 16, 2009

Author(s)

Paul D. Kunz, Thomas P. Heavner, Steven R. Jefferts

We are developing a transportable laser-cooled rubidium (Rb) atomic fountain frequency standard. We have a complete optical package, and have recently shown...

Limits on GPS Carrier Phase Time Transfer

November 16, 2009

Author(s)

Marc A. Weiss

The stability of differential delays between Global Navigation Satellite receivers is critical for time and frequency transfer. We study the limit of this...

Characterization of Noise Properties in Photodetectors: A Step Toward Ultra-Low Noise Microwaves

November 16, 2009

Author(s)

Jennifer A. Taylor, Franklyn J. Quinlan, Scott A. Diddams

Very low-noise microwave signals are desirable for many state-of-the-art applications, including many types of radar and imaging systems. However, even state-of...

EXPLORING THE BAG-OF-WORDS METHOD FOR 3D SHAPE RETRIEVAL

November 10, 2009

Author(s)

Afzal A. Godil, Xiaolan Li

EXPLORING THE BAG-OF-WORDS METHOD FOR 3D SHAPE RETRIEVAL

Nonlinear calibration of polarimetric radar cross section systems

November 4, 2009

Author(s)

Lorant A. Muth

Polarimetric radar cross section systems are characterized by polarimetric system parameters $\epsilon_h$ and $\epsilon_v$. These parameters can be obtained...

A DATA FLOW IMPLEMENTATION OF AGENT-BASED DISTRIBUTED GRAPH SEARCH

November 4, 2009

Author(s)

Imad Hamchi, Mathieu Hoarau, Antoine Fillinger, Nicolas Crouzier, Lukas Diduch, Martial Michel, Vincent M. Stanford

Biological ants organize themselves into forager groups that converge to shortest paths to and from food sources. This has motivated development a large class...

Herding, Second Preimage, and Trojan Message Attacks Beyond Merkle-Damgaard

November 3, 2009

Author(s)

Elena Andreeva, Charles Bouillaguet , Orr Dunkelman, John M. Kelsey

In this paper we present new attack techniques to analyze the structure of hash functions that are not based on the classical Merkle-Damgaard construction. We...

DIAMETER AND FORM MEASUREMENT OF A MICRO-HOLE IN A FUEL INJECTOR NOZZLE WITH THE NIST FIBER PROBE

November 2, 2009

Author(s)

Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Jack A. Stone Jr., John R. Stoup

We discuss the measurement of diameter and form of micro-holes with reverse tapers in a fuel injector nozzle using an ultra-low force contact fiber probe on a...

A proposed global atmospheric monitoring networkbased on standard stars

November 2, 2009

Author(s)

Gerald T. Fraser, Steven W. Brown, Keith R. Lykke, John T. McGraw, Allan W. Smith, John T. Woodward IV, Peter C. Zimmer, Christopher W. Stubbs

The feasibility of developing a network of telescopes to monitor the composition of the nighttime atmosphere using stellar spectrophotometry is explored...

Potential interference issues between FCC Part 15 compliant emitters and immunity complaint equipment

November 1, 2009

Author(s)

Jeffrey R. Guerrieri, David R. Novotny, Daniel G. Kuester

Transmitting equipment may interfere with sensitive electronic equipment even if both are in compliance with regulatory standards. This paper examines the...

Matching Observed Alpha Helix Lengths to Predicted Secondary Structure

November 1, 2009

Author(s)

Brian D. Cloteaux, Nadezhda Serova

Because of the complexity in determining the 3D structure of a protein, the use of partial information determined from experimental techniques can greatly...

Cost-effectiveness, Carbon Emissions, and Carbon Tax Implications of Energy Efficiency Measures in New Commercial Buildings.

November 1, 2009

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, Barbara C. Lippiatt

Building energy efficiency has become a top priority due to the recent energy price spikes and increasing concern regarding climate change. New buildings are...

A Novel Wafer-plane Dosimeter for EUV Lithography

November 1, 2009

Author(s)

Steven E. Grantham, Charles S. Tarrio

Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUVL) incorporates 13.5 nm light for patterning wafers and requires in-situ wafer-plane dosimetry that can be tailored to the...

NIST High Resolution X-Ray Diffraction Standard Reference Material: SRM 2000

October 30, 2009

Author(s)

Donald A. Windover, David L. Gil, Albert Henins, James P. Cline

NIST recently released a standard reference material (SRM) for the calibration of high resolution X-ray diffraction (HRXRD) instruments. HRXRD is extensively...

Data Collection Test-bed for the Evaluation of Range Imaging Sensors for ANSI/ITSDF B56.5 Safety Standard for Guided Industrial Vehicles

October 29, 2009

Author(s)

William P. Shackleford, Roger V. Bostelman

In this paper, we describe the process by which we collected sensor data for the evaluation of 3D LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging). Data was also collected...

Effects of Temperature and Humidity on the Photodegradation of TiO2-Filled Acrylic Urethane Films

October 28, 2009

Author(s)

Stephanie S. Watson, Tarek Marray, Yongyan Pang, Li Piin Sung

Metal oxide fillers, such as titanium dioxide (TiO2) are commonly used in building and construction applications and are added to increase the opacity and/or to...

Uncooled, Millimeter-Scale Atomic Magnetometers with Femtotesla Sensitivity

October 26, 2009

Author(s)

John E. Kitching, Svenja A. Knappe, William C. Griffith, Jan Preusser, V Gerginov, Peter D. Schwindt, Vishal Shah, Ricardo Jimenez Martinez

We summarize recent results at NIST to develop high-performance yet highly miniaturized magnetic sensors based on atomic vapors confined in microfabricated...

I Come Not To Bury Cranfield, but to Praise It

October 26, 2009

Author(s)

Ellen M. Voorhees

Modeling the Effects of Outdoor Use of Gasoline Powered Generators on Indoor Carbon Monoxide Levels

October 26, 2009

Author(s)

Liangzhu Wang, Steven Emmerich

Background The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that half of non-fatal CO poisoning incidents during the hurricane season in...

Artificial Intelligence Tools for Failure Event Data Management and Probability Risk Analysis for Failure Prevention

October 25, 2009

Author(s)

Jeffrey T. Fong, Pedro V. Marcal

Over the last thirty years, much research has been done on the development of failure event databases and fatigue modeling of crack growth in pressure vessels...

Creating a web-scale video collection for research

October 23, 2009

Author(s)

Paul D. Over, George M. Awad, Alan Smeaton, Colum Foley, James Lanagan

This paper begins by considering a number of important design questions for a web-scale, widely available, multimedia test collection intended to support long...

Towards a Global Interoperability Test Bed for eBusiness Systems

October 21, 2009

Author(s)

Nenad Ivezic, Hyunbo Cho, Jungyub Woo, Jun H. Shin, Jaewook Kim, Mohammad Abidi, Asuman Dogac, Tuncay Namli, Christine Legner, Francois Fischer

We describe an initial effort to create a comprehensive and coherent framework for feasibility analysis of the Global Interoperability Test Bed for eBusiness...

Measuring the Utility/Path Diversity Tradeoff in Multipath Protocols

October 20, 2009

Author(s)

Fern Y. Hunt, Vladimir V. Marbukh

We derive a model of congestion control where the trade-off between utility and path diversity can be investigated. In a network where there can be multiple...

An Improved Fast I_d-V ^d g Measurement Technology With Expanded Application Range

October 19, 2009

Author(s)

Chen Wang, Liangchun (. Yu, Jason P. Campbell, Kin P. Cheung, Yi Xuan, Peide Ye, John S. Suehle, David Zhang

Fast Id-Vg measurements on very high performance devices (very low channel ON-resistance) and larger area devices (therefore large gate capacitance) are subject...

Fire Spread and Growth on Flexible Polyurethane Foam

October 18, 2009

Author(s)

William M. Pitts, Gregory Hasapis, Patrick Macatangga

A series of experiments designed to characterize fire spread and growth on flat samples of commercial non-fire-retarded flexible polyurethane foam have been...

Random vs. Combinatorial Methods for Discrete Event Simulation of a Grid Computer Network

October 16, 2009

Author(s)

David R. Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker, Yu Lei

This study compared random and t-way combinatorial inputs of a network simulator, to determine if these two approaches produce significantly different deadlock...

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